May be some of you remember in the month of November 2009 I wrote about the movie Julie and Julia (really I also forgot exactly when did I write about it but then some searching gave me exact month). So like 15 days back I was roaming in the library (please don't think I am so studious, I was waiting for my friend to come out of a class and meet other girls). Suddenly I saw one shelf where they were having books which made it in to movie or any TV drama. The first shot was Dracula by Barm Stoker. I want to read that thing since I was kid but now with many Dracula films under my belt and read one translation I was still looking around. And it caught my eyes - "Julie and Julia - my years of cooking Dangerously " . I just checked it out and took it to home to read.
Due date for the book was 2 March so I was going slow. Not like my regular attempt to finish a book in a night. But then suddenly somebody recalled it and I got new due date - Feb 16. And now I write with success of completing the book.
Yup, so this book is like a memoir of Julie Powel who started this Julie/Julia project. She's a 29 years old secretary in NYC, doing just every day work and getting depressed for not doing anything different or attractive or something like that. So she needs something to keep motivating and she finds the book of Julia Child and decides to cook its 524 recipes in 365 days. Her book talks about her cooking experiments which she says were dangerous. Yah and they sound dangerous, even in US its not usual to say that I cooked bone-marrow cutting the bone in the home or I boned the whole duck and don't forget about the measurements of butter like three quarter pounds. I have never seen to measure butter in recipe in pounds. They are dangerous.
So not going in the details of the story, lets see the writing style (wow, this is my first book review haha, I am not a good writer). She writes her first book. And it is like a blog. It consists of small chapters which come with emails, blog posts, comments from readers and her time in her office and kitchen. Some parts you feel funny, but I did not think that this was that LOL book as mentioned in the cover. May be conceptions of LOL are different for me.
If you want to compare the movie and book, I feel Norah had portrayed a subtle Julie, where in the books she shows herself as a lunatic (I don't know if it suites or not but I don't care). She says she used F word often and her language is not gentle as you can see it in her blog too.
After reading old post, my friend was thinking of going to French Restaurant but he did not find one. Actually I also looked around but could not find one. Need to look at some better places.
So I can say if you are fan of cooking, eating or if you are thinking that your life is boring you will get something in this book. So search for it and don't be surprised with the language - you can say may be PG-13.
So See you next time.
Bye
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